>>37091252>no more shitmovesStealth Rock, with absolutely no way to remove it.
Kanto, the least intrinsically interesting region, without Johto, the Sevii Islands, or a SINGLE location not seen in the first half of the set of Game Boy installments, whether it would be new to the series or something older than the age cutoff for this site that doesn’t merely replace an existing location.
Mega Gyarados as the only Dark-type Pokémon, Mega Kangaskhan without the ability conveyed by its design, and Mega Pinsir with no Flying-type moves.
No special battle music for any trainers who would be deemed worthy of having that kind of music after 1998.
Six hundred and fifty-six Pokémon from nineteen years minus five days of series history, a few dozen of which would later be confirmed to reside within Kanto; endemically, even, in the cases of Houndour and Murkrow, gone.
I, for one, am appalled. If you think I’m wrong to feel this way, congratulations, you’re part of what killed the first franchise I ever fell in love with in my eyes. You’re part of the unforgiving maelstrom that killed a small place inside my heart,
unless the 2019 games confirm the hypothesis that the series is being split into a series for the casual audience and a series for the hardcore audience.
